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Pros And Cons Of The Monroe Doctrine
Monroe Doctrine: For Good or for Bad?

The interests of our own Latin America is clearly different from those of that of the United States – but ever since the Monroe Doctrine has been declared, it seemed as if relations between the US and the nations of Latin America stabilized on a friendly note. But we need not feel easy and let our guard down at all, for this issue has had major questionings in the past years already. Is the United States really attempting to protect our nations from any threat of reconquest from outer nations? Or is the US only using the Monroe Doctrine to dominate the Western Hemisphere?

I strongly agree with our nations' government views about this issue: that the United States is only using this as a step forward
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